We need free speech and thought

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[The Church of England Newspaper] October 14, 2005--The fact that Australian courts are about to imprison two Christian pastors for criticising Islam demonstrates the difficulties and contortions of Western secular culture. Tolerance is the avowed motive for this inquisitorial law, and yet how intolerant the law evidently is! And when we consider the repression of Christians in so many Islamic lands in different ways, we realise that at the global level things are now thoroughly contradictory – it might even become an offence to articulate the plight of Indonesian Christians having their churches closed down, since that might ‘offend’ Muslims in the UK....